Dylan Hardison
Principal Software Engineer at Fastly
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDylan Hardison is a Principal Software Engineer at Fastly with 18 years of experience building high-performance, reliable systems. He recently rewrote a critical system in Rust, achieving a 90% reduction in memory and CPU usage. Based in Seattle, Washington, he has delivered impactful backend work at Mozilla, R-Stream, and Fastly, and has advocated for Zstandard compression in container registries since 2021. An active open-source contributor, he's contributed to Bugzilla as a back-end developer, adding features for user bug interactions and search, including last_visit timestamps and schema/index optimizations. He values clear communication and proactive problem solving, combining hands-on engineering with a strong drive to learn and apply cutting-edge techniques.
19 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
St. Petersburg College
Github Skills (5)
bugzilla10
perl10
sql10
database-design8
mysql7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
bugzilla/bugzilla
Apr 2014 - Nov 2022
Official repository for the Bugzilla bug tracking system. Report bugs to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Bugzilla&format=__default__ . Main website:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:51 reviews, 137 commits, 113 PRs in 8 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Dylan primarily focused on modifying the Bugzilla codebase to implement and enhance features related to user bug interactions and search functionality. Their contributions included adding functionality to record the last visit time for bugs, incorporating a pronoun expansion for the 'last_visit_ts' search field, and modifying existing code to remove last-visited entries when users remove involvement from bugs. They also addressed database indexing and schema adjustments within the Bugzilla project.
cgireportbug-trackingtrackingbugzilla
dylanwh/bugzilla
Dec 2015 - Oct 2022
just my bugzilla fork where I do weird stuff.
Contributions:119 pushes, 69 branches in 6 years 11 months
bugzilla
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